Challenge Island Plano and Highland Park/North Dallas
Challenge Island Plano and Highland Park/North Dallas, 4514 Cole Ave Suite 600, Suite 600, Dallas, TX 75205
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Challenge Island Plano and Highland Park/North Dallas offers screen-free programs where children work in STEAM Teams® to tackle hands-on challenges using low-tech supplies from a treasure chest. The program includes camps, onsite field trips, after school enrichment, family engagement events, book series programs, Slimetopia® STEAM camp, Girl Scout workshops, and birthday parties. Its activities use a whimsical island ambience with cross-curricular themes, project-based learning, and collaborative, inquiry-based, student-driven learning grounded in real world connections and meaningful problem-solving.
• Schedule: Offers onsite field trips, afterschool enrichment, summer camps, and family engagement programs
Challenge Island Plano and Highland Park/North Dallas is locally owned and operated by Tia Sukenik, who has been working with children in the Dallas area for over 30 years. Tia began her teaching career in 1992 in Austin, Texas, then taught in Dallas ISD after moving to Dallas in 1994, and has worked as a Gymboree teacher, preschool teacher, Destination Imagination volunteer, after school teacher in her children’s preschool, preschool director, and Director of Camp Gan Israel in Plano, Texas. She began her journey with Challenge Island in February 2017 and has worked with countless schools and organizations, bringing Challenge Island to children across the Plano/Dallas area and opening a storefront in North Dallas. Challenge Island is described as the World’s #1 STEAM Program and the World’s #1 STEM/STEAM Program, is found in 20,000 schools and organizations, and ranks on Entrepreneur Magazine’s Franchise 500® for the ninth year in a row as a STEAM education franchise leader. Its programs are described as fostering 21st century skills such as creativity, collaboration, communication, flexibility, and leadership, and promoting higher level thinking skills including deep, critical, analytical, and creative thinking, with a focus on social-emotional learning and resilience.
Last updated July 22, 2026.
• Schedule: Offers onsite field trips, afterschool enrichment, summer camps, and family engagement programs
Challenge Island Plano and Highland Park/North Dallas is locally owned and operated by Tia Sukenik, who has been working with children in the Dallas area for over 30 years. Tia began her teaching career in 1992 in Austin, Texas, then taught in Dallas ISD after moving to Dallas in 1994, and has worked as a Gymboree teacher, preschool teacher, Destination Imagination volunteer, after school teacher in her children’s preschool, preschool director, and Director of Camp Gan Israel in Plano, Texas. She began her journey with Challenge Island in February 2017 and has worked with countless schools and organizations, bringing Challenge Island to children across the Plano/Dallas area and opening a storefront in North Dallas. Challenge Island is described as the World’s #1 STEAM Program and the World’s #1 STEM/STEAM Program, is found in 20,000 schools and organizations, and ranks on Entrepreneur Magazine’s Franchise 500® for the ninth year in a row as a STEAM education franchise leader. Its programs are described as fostering 21st century skills such as creativity, collaboration, communication, flexibility, and leadership, and promoting higher level thinking skills including deep, critical, analytical, and creative thinking, with a focus on social-emotional learning and resilience.
Last updated July 22, 2026.
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